#Booksky More August with us! 2/2 And look for @heatherrosejones.bsky.social and Catherine Lundoff on programming at LA Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social 8/27-8/31! We also have a monthly newsletter you can sign up for! queenofswordspress.com

I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.

The Plagiarism Machine — KJ Charles

Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time...

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If AI were banned today, nothing in my workflow would change. Except, wait, I could reply to a website message without the stupid activate-AI button covering the send-reply button.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 11h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

#Booksky Gay fantastical mysteries fan? Find the Lynes & Mathey books and the Astreiant Series at our website and everywhere else from Bookshop to GooglePlay, Kobo to Smashwords! queenofswordspress.com/product-cate...

Melissa Scott

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#books #BookSky #sff #fantasy #fiction #pagan #witch #bookawards Winner of the 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, long out of print, now back!

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's here! @sarahavery.bsky.social 's revised edition of Tales From Rugosa Coven is out today! Jennifer Stevenson at A Green Man Review called it "Charming, engrossing, authentic, highly recommended." (Link to us, but it's at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

#Booksky Catherine Lundoff is @armarshwriter.bsky.social’s guest on the 2nd ever Fantasy Free Me Podcast! m.youtube.com/watch?si=6Xi...

Interview with Catherine Lundoff, of Queen of Swords Press

YouTube video by Fantasy Free Me, with Amy R. Marsh

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ICYMI - Tales from Rugosa Coven is out now!

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's here! @sarahavery.bsky.social 's revised edition of Tales From Rugosa Coven is out today! Jennifer Stevenson at A Green Man Review called it "Charming, engrossing, authentic, highly recommended." (Link to us, but it's at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

Happy book (re)birthday to @sarahavery.bsky.social and Tales From Rugosa Coven!

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's here! @sarahavery.bsky.social 's revised edition of Tales From Rugosa Coven is out today! Jennifer Stevenson at A Green Man Review called it "Charming, engrossing, authentic, highly recommended." (Link to us, but it's at all the usual suspects.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/tales-f...

#Booksky Just a few hours left on this sale!

Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · last wk.

#Booksky Like queer pirates? Let us help! SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME (AND SPACE), THE VOYAGES OF CINRAK THE DAPPER and SAILING THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE are all on sale right now at Smashwords and DriveThruFiction for 2 more days! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky LAST call for book sales! Get great deals on all our great queer books just in time for #Fridayreads at our Smashwords store! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

In Book II of The Order of the Air, by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @jograham.bsky.social STEEL BLUES - the Axeman gets a version of his story. This is a wonderful series, by the way... eBook, print, and audio.

I'd be a struggling singer/musician in New York City. An ambitious chorus girl.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

This tree was alive before London and England even existed Perhaps a Roman soldier out of their new town of Londinium set eyes on it The oldest tree in London +2000 years - The Totteridge Yew 🌲

Hey, #FridayReads folks, my book that won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award will be back in print on August 1st. I laughed every day while I wrote Tales from Rugosa Coven.

@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 2w ago

@skiffyandfanty.com called @sarahavery.bsky.social's award-winning Tales From Rugosa Coven "one of the most grounded-feeling urban fantasies I’ve ever read." It's out August 1, but you can preorder it now. Link to Amazon, but it's up at all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/Tales-Rugosa...

#Booksky Kobo or KoboPlus reader? Our great queer books, like the Astreiant Series, are available out there too! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

The Complete Astreiant ebook by Melissa Scott - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Complete Astreiant Astreiant, #7" by Melissa Scott available from Rakuten Kobo. The city of Astreiant is full of magic, danger and bureaucracy. Former mercenary Philip Eslingen and Pointsman...

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#Booksky #Fridayreads Just 6 days left to get some great deals on our great queer reads at Smashwords! Gay Edwardian gaslamp mysteries to menopausal werewolves and dapper lesbian capybara pirates - we’re eclectic! Give our books a try! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

And now I have the Elizabethan song "Will you buy a fine dog" stuck in my head for the rest of the afternoon.

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 2w ago

Well, I just spent forty minutes down a rabbit hole trying to come up with a suitably second-world quasi-Renaissance term for “dildo,” so how is everyone else’s morning going?

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

#Booksky More book sale comps! If you like the Astreiant Series, you’ll almost certainly love Lynes & Mathey! On sale at Smashwords and DriveThruFiction now! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Oh, I absolutely LOVED that story! Fantastic story in an excellent anthology!

Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Booksky Since everyone is into The Odyssey now, this seems a good time to mention that our anthology SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME (AND SPACE) includes the absolutely kickass tale about Hector’s widow after the fall of Troy, “Andromache’s War” by Elliott Dunstan. bookshop.org/p/books/scou...

"The Wire Meets The Shire"—Merryshire Detective Club's long-awaited crowdfunding is live!

Merryshire Detective Club

You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...

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I love living in a neighborhood where one can say, without undue surprise, "oh, there's a new dragon in the blacksmith's yard."

#Booksky We’re having a second book sale for July! Check out our shop at DriveThruFiction this week for great deals! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...

I bet you can find your next read right here--why not go check it out?

Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · 3w ago

#Booksky #Fridayreads We have a great sale running on Smashwords for the next 2 weeks which includes our entire catalogue. Our books are queer AF, fun, eclectic, unique, funny, scary and more! If you haven’t checked them out yet, now is always a great time! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky #Minneapolis The A/C at DreamHaven Books has gone kaput so the store is temporarily closed. However, Will Alexander @willalex.bsky.social’s reading is still ON TONIGHT at 7PM! Sisters Sludge on 38th Street is hosting us - come by early and grab dinner!

Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · 3w ago

#Booksky Here’s a nice piece of South Minneapolis solidarity! The A/C at DreamHaven Books died and it’s hella hot this week so our lovely neighbors at Sister Sludge across the street are hosting us and the awesome @willalex.bsky.social tomorrow night 7/15 at 7PM! facebook.com/events/s/wil...

I love this stage. It's like rummaging around in my mental card files for all the story fragments that just might work and seeing what bonkers combinations turn up.

A.M. Tuomala@amtuomala.bsky.social · 3w ago

The hardest thing about a novel idea in its most embryonic stages is the impulse to add every theme and trope that sparks your interest, regardless of whether it has anything to do with the idea's other themes and tropes. "Aw, sure, why not top 'er up with a katabasis subplot? I ain't driving!"

#Booksky We have our own Bookshop storefront! Get our great queer books in print and ebook from us or from your favorite local indie bookstore! bookshop.org/lists/queen-...

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Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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As my cranky soul-ancestor wrote in Medicina Magica tamen Physica:

#Booksky Had some fine moments at the Inbound Book Fair yesterday but overall, sadly, not the sales powerhouse last year was. So here’s another reminder that our titles are on sale all month at Smashwords and today is a good day to read!

Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Booksky And if you can’t come see us at the Inbound Book Fair today, our books are on sale at Smashwords! Get great queer reads by Melissa Scott, Catherine Lundoff, A.J. Fitzwater and more! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

#Booksky And if you can’t come see us at the Inbound Book Fair today, our books are on sale at Smashwords! Get great queer reads by Melissa Scott, Catherine Lundoff, A.J. Fitzwater and more! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...